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David R. Shanks is a professor of Psychology at University College London and head of the UCL Division of Psychology and Language Sciences. He is the author of more than 100 publications in human cognitive and experimental psychology, including research on learning and memory, aging, and judgment and decision making, and has authored or edited seven books, including Straight Choices: The Psychology of Decision Making (with Ben Newell and David Lagnado). Development and testing of computational models is a major theme throughout his research. In 2011 he was awarded the Experimental Psychology Society Mid-Career Award.